Stu Rasmussen

Stu Rasmussen
Mayor of Silverton, Oregon
In office
January 2009 – January 2015
Preceded byKen Hector
Succeeded byRick Lewis
Personal details
Born(1948-09-09)September 9, 1948
Silverton, Oregon, U.S.
DiedNovember 17, 2021 (aged 73)
Silverton, Oregon, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic (since 1996)
Other political
affiliations
Independent (before 1996)

Stu Rasmussen (September 9, 1948 – November 17, 2021) was an American politician. He became the nation's first openly transgender mayor when he was elected as the mayor of Silverton, Oregon in November 2008.

He had previously been elected twice in the 1990s as mayor of this Willamette Valley community, before coming out as transgender. He was also three times a member of the city council. He was assigned male at birth, identified as a man, preferred masculine pronouns, had breast implants, and had a feminine gender expression. He sometimes went by the name Carla Fong.

Rasmussen unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1994 as an independent, and a seat in the Oregon State Senate in 1996 as a Democrat. He ran for the House again in 1998 as a Democrat, losing with 41% of the vote.

In 2013 a musical about Rasmussen, Stu for Silverton, premiered at Seattle's Intiman Theatre.

Rasmussen, a self-described fiscal conservative and social liberal, served as city councilor until January 2009.

He co-owned Silverton's 1936 Palace Theater, which shows first-run movies, since 1974.

Rasmussen died from prostate cancer on November 17, 2021, at the age of 73.


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